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Berio's Sequenzas : essays on performance, composition and analysis / edited by Janet K. Halfyard ; with an introduction by David Osmond-Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.Description: xxii, 306 páginas : ilustraciones, música ; 24 cmContent type:
  • Texto
Media type:
  • sin mediación
Carrier type:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9781138247994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML410.B4968 B47 2007
Contents:
Introduction / David Osmond-Smith -- Part 1. Performance issues : Rhythm and Timing in the Two Versions of Berio's Sequenza I for Flute Solo: Psychological and Musical Differences in Performance / Cynthia Folio and Alexander R. Brinkman ; Rough romance: Sequenza II for harp as study and statement / Kirsty Watley ; Phantom Rhythms, Hidden Harmonies: the Use of the Sostenuto Pedal in Berio's Sequenza IV for Piano, Leaf and Sonata / Zoe Browder Doll ; A Dress or a Straightjacket? Facing the Problems of Structure and Periodicity Posed by the Notation of Berio's Sequenza VII for Oboe / Patricia Alessandrini ; Shadow Boxing: Sequenza X for Trumpet and Piano Resonance / Jonathan Impett -- Part 2. Berio's compositional process and aesthetics : Provoking Acts: The Theatre of Berio's Sequenzas / Janet K. Halfyard ; The Chemins Series / Paul Roberts ; The Compass of Communications in Sequenza VIII for Violin / Eugene Montague ; Sequenza IX for Clarinet: Text, Pre-Text, Con-Text / Andrea Cremaschi ; Proliferations and Limitations: Berio's Reworking of the Sequenzas / Edward Venn -- Part 3. Analytical approaches : Vestiges of Twelve-Tone Practice as Compositional Process in Berio's Sequenza I for Solo Flute / Irna Priore ; Sonic Complexity and Harmonic Syntax in Sequenza IV for Piano / Didier Guigue and Marcílio Fagner Onofre ; The Nature of Expressivity in Berio's Sequenza VI for Viola / Amanda Bayley ; A Polyphonic Type of Listening In and Out of Focus: Berio's Sequenza XI for Guitar / Mark D. Porcaro ; And so a chord consoles us: Berio's Sequenza XIII (Chanson) for Accordion / Thomas Gartmann
Bibliography: Incluye referencias bibliográficas (pp. 291-298), discográficas (p. 299) e índicesSummary: "Berio's Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century, a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilites of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demans of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre." (página ix)
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Introduction / David Osmond-Smith -- Part 1. Performance issues : Rhythm and Timing in the Two Versions of Berio's Sequenza I for Flute Solo: Psychological and Musical Differences in Performance / Cynthia Folio and Alexander R. Brinkman ; Rough romance: Sequenza II for harp as study and statement / Kirsty Watley ; Phantom Rhythms, Hidden Harmonies: the Use of the Sostenuto Pedal in Berio's Sequenza IV for Piano, Leaf and Sonata / Zoe Browder Doll ; A Dress or a Straightjacket? Facing the Problems of Structure and Periodicity Posed by the Notation of Berio's Sequenza VII for Oboe / Patricia Alessandrini ; Shadow Boxing: Sequenza X for Trumpet and Piano Resonance / Jonathan Impett -- Part 2. Berio's compositional process and aesthetics : Provoking Acts: The Theatre of Berio's Sequenzas / Janet K. Halfyard ; The Chemins Series / Paul Roberts ; The Compass of Communications in Sequenza VIII for Violin / Eugene Montague ; Sequenza IX for Clarinet: Text, Pre-Text, Con-Text / Andrea Cremaschi ; Proliferations and Limitations: Berio's Reworking of the Sequenzas / Edward Venn -- Part 3. Analytical approaches : Vestiges of Twelve-Tone Practice as Compositional Process in Berio's Sequenza I for Solo Flute / Irna Priore ; Sonic Complexity and Harmonic Syntax in Sequenza IV for Piano / Didier Guigue and Marcílio Fagner Onofre ; The Nature of Expressivity in Berio's Sequenza VI for Viola / Amanda Bayley ; A Polyphonic Type of Listening In and Out of Focus: Berio's Sequenza XI for Guitar / Mark D. Porcaro ; And so a chord consoles us: Berio's Sequenza XIII (Chanson) for Accordion / Thomas Gartmann

"Berio's Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century, a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilites of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demans of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre." (página ix)